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Hello, my boss said I can have 1 miner on workplace (free electricity), if its not too noisy. I would like to mine DigiBytes.

What miner would you recommend me? My only reqs are to be quiet and able to mine DGB. So far I was looking at L3+ but it seems very noisy but its hard to tell from YT videos.

Thanks  ;)

Any suggestions? :)

Ask your boss for sure again and make a rig 8 x 1080ti man  :)
Your boss is so cute  ;D

GTX 1080 ti rig mining DGB-Groetsl or DGB-Skein can be built pretty quiet, if you use something like the Gigabyte Aorus cards.

An ASIC is going to be noisy, but a GPU mining rig can be pretty quiet if you buy ones with good coolers that don't require a high fan speed. What kind of budget do you have for it?

What about an Antminer R4, pretty quiet as it's designed as a home miner.

I had a antminer R4, it wasnt quite though. Not sure if it had some sort of mechanical fault or what. But it was quite noisy.

get a watercooled 1080 gtx ti.

I like it much better than the air fans,  Never have to adjust fans or worry about fan speed control on bootup etc. . Just mines and you can leave it alone.

Makes no noise.

Plus your only really paying $50 bucks more for the water,  So worth it if you consider resale value and longer gpu longevity due to the cooler temps.


Also you can use asics if you build a proper sound proofing box and if your job has a server room with proper ventilation. Asics pretty reliable and just auto mines when there is power source,  and never have to check up on it daily like gpus,  just weekly.

I'm not sure how you could do anything other than some kind of GPU setup.  Miners are just loud.

Get any ASIC and a quiet server cabinet.

3x 1080ti;  mine on a DGB pool on the skien side.

make it an open air rig, with a few fans that blow fresh air across the rig.   Should stay pretty quiet if the cards have proper spacing (easy on a 3 card open air rig).

shove it in a corner and let it fly.

the best and silent are asus strix, zotac amp extreme, msi lighting 
or take hybryd one - msi sea hawk, evga hybrid

those 1080ti I'm talking about and I'm not quite sure if it profitable to mine DGB right now?

I am mining DGB with my baikal asic its very nice to mine DGB Qubit algo with baikal miner.
Less power then x11 and more coins :)

 You left out the Gigabyte Aorus - any of the "3 slot" GTX 1080 ti models should be able to run pretty quiet while staying comfortably cool, though a hybrid or water-cooled setup might be cooler for the same noise level.

 You're not limited to minining skein or groetsl with those cards - you have tons of options, the most common ones being ZEC and ZEN right now, and potentially that Bitcoin Gold thing if they ever get it going.

EVGA coolers are pretty quiet on 70% or less fan speeds.

If you can separate them more than 2 slot spacing, then they will get enough cooling to not need to ramp up even that high at default settings/clocks.

FWIW: BTG wont be a GPU algo;  its still SHA256 which GPU's are pure garbage at compared to an ASIC.

I chose skien because of 2 reasons:  power consumption, and hashrate for the algo compared to many other cards....  Kinda like how Lyra2v2 was the king for nvidia cards in the past;  they are just much more optimized, and there's a really good sp_ release for skien mining.

For a purely silent ASIC (but barely zero power consumption so you might as well run at home) would be the Baikal X11 mini.

Go for a rig with water cooled cards, the EVGA FTW 1080 or 1080 ti it is absolutely the best choice for such situation, the noise is very low compared to air cooled GPU-s. You will be happy for such choice since you have free electricity and your boss will almost hear nothing except the mining rig normal noise. I wish I had a boss like yours but in Italy bosses are very strict at work.

Do not forget about temperature it will very hot if you put in a small place without air conditioner.

 Direct quote from the Bitcoin Gold website:

 "Bitcoin Gold implements a new PoW algorithm, Equihash, that makes mining decentralized again."


 Which is kind of a lie since Equihash is the same algorithm that ZEC and ZEN (among others) use, NOT a new algorithm - unless they are going to impliment a modified version that's not compatable with current mining software.


 I like the EVGA cards I have, my current tentative planning involves some of their 1080ti models that don't have 2 x 8 pin power connectors for my future expansion (2 x 8 pin is a nightmare from a power supply standpoint for my planned rig expansion).

if you are worried, literally run a subharness with a pair of grounds to the +2 extra pins.   Ive done this before, and it works fine.  There's nothing special but two extra grounds.

Ahh, im mistaken;  that's right... they changed the protocol completely;  but for some stupid reason they don't start fresh like most blockchains;  instead they continue to double up bags on people who don't really need it.

These forks are just stomping on the altcoin market imho.... pushing it into BTC.

Buy titans for DGB and mine skein algo.

 Titans have pretty much the same performance as the GTX 1080 ti - total waste of money to do cryptocoin mining on them unless you already HAVE them for some other reason.

Congratulations! You have the dream job. I love my job too much to risk getting caught mining at work, but yours is, damn. Lucky you!

Fill er up with the highest power consuming GPUs and make your boss regret his decision. It's like you got a salary raise! Congrats again. Noise shouldn't be a problem. Build your office rig then celebrate like theres no tomorrow!

Yep a salary raise of $2.50 extra dollars a day.

I have built a super quite single card headless miners. Gen Ethos for the os. Very little heat and not louder than a regular PC.  Used a Dell Inspiron 530 computer with a Asus R9 380x. Got a free PSU from Amazon after they sent me two when I only paid for one PSU. Computer I got from an electronics recycling dumpster for free.  Total cost for the setup was $50 and that was for the Asus R9 380x off a guy on craigslist. Does about 16 Mh/s for Eth. Not much I know but it's quite as a mouse and little to no heat generated. Since it is headless, no monitor required and I can go to it's ip address and pull up a web interface to see it's stats.

And you told Amazon about PSU and Amazon lets u have it for free or you just exploit their very good reputation in customer service and assumed Amazon will let u to have it for free ;D

This situation on amazon often happens weather you want to or not... lol

Recently I bought a NGFF M.2->USB WWAN adapter and it did not power on when hooked up like the miniPCIE/USB WWAN adaptors.... the seller asked me what WWAN card I was using, and when I stated LM7355, I was promptly given a refund saying incompatible device.
Two days od driver fiddling later;  the whole contraption works and powers up.   $25 saved.....

The winner for me is baikal cube or baikal cube tower. You can get them cheap on ebay and they are ultra quiet,low energy consumption and nice to look at.